Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

A language is like living skin itself.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.